1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,440 Speaker 1: Well, now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief, 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 1: exploring legal issues in the news. It's ROSSI you buy 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:10,320 Speaker 1: American Arbitration Association, International Trade or Business Dispute Resolve Faster 4 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: with the International Center for Dispute Resolution, the leader in 5 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 1: alternative dispute resolution around the world i c d R 6 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 1: dot org. Today Bloomberg LAJO student Grosso and Greg Stuart 7 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 1: discussed strained relations between US and UK intelligence services after 8 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: information about the Manchester bombing leaked to US media. Is 9 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: seek at Bradley Moss, a partner at mark z PC, 10 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: and Andrew Kent, a professor at Fordham University Law School. 11 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 1: Will this affect intelligence sharing with the UK? Yeah, I 12 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: think it's hard to say. From what I can tell, 13 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: it's still unclear from whose side, you know, whether it's 14 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:49,519 Speaker 1: the American or the US side the leaks came. I mean, 15 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 1: it seems Prime Minister May thinks it's from the American side, 16 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: and and maybe it is. But you know, these kinds 17 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: of leaks are pretty common. You know. The photos published 18 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: by the New York Times did not you know, I mean, 19 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: they're primecing photos, but do not seem to be amazingly 20 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 1: sensitive not not on the on the same order of 21 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,839 Speaker 1: the kind of thing that President Trump apparently disclosed. So 22 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 1: I would be surprised if a you know, decades long, 23 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: incredibly strong and fruitural intelligence relationship between the UK and 24 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 1: the United States is you know, meaningfully harmed by this. 25 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: But you know, it certainly doesn't help Bradley UH Justice 26 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 1: Department apparently is going to look into this. What what 27 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: laws conceivably could have been broken by the leak of 28 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,479 Speaker 1: this information? Well, by and large, the standard ones we've 29 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:35,559 Speaker 1: heard with respect to any leak of classified information, even 30 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:39,559 Speaker 1: class of information that's been shared by a UH foreign 31 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 1: partner government could conceivably fall under one of various statutory 32 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: provisions under the Espionage Act, or a couple of different 33 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: ones with respective misdemeanors for improperly removing classified information or 34 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: what's called national defense information. The question, of course, is 35 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: who you know, even assuming that this was a leak 36 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: from the U West side, what particular agencies or organizations 37 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: with the US government would have received it, And was 38 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: it from the intelligence community or was it coming from 39 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 1: White House officials. We just don't know yet. Is this 40 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 1: information to actually classify? Would you expect that to be 41 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: the case. From what has been described, I am candidly 42 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:21,079 Speaker 1: not certain. It sounds like it was likely at least sensitive. 43 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: Whether or not it met the definition for classified is 44 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: kind of up in the air, and that's going to 45 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 1: be part of the problem is there's very clear statutory 46 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: provisions in US law for criminalizing people who leak classified information. 47 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: When it comes to unclassified but sensitive information, it's a 48 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: lot harder to make a criminal case, if at all. 49 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 1: And if that's what that's what we have here. If 50 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: it's information that's not classified, it's a basis for possibly 51 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: firing the person who leaked it, but making a criminal 52 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: case is far more difficult. As Ranley Massa partner at 53 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: Mark Zade PC and Andrew Kentner, professor at Fordham you know, 54 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: Versity Law School speaking at Bloomberg La host Doing Grosso 55 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 1: and Greg Sture. You can listen to Bloomberg Law weekdays 56 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 1: at one pm Wall Street Time here on Bloomberg Radio 57 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: and that's this morning's Bloomberg Labrate. If you can find 58 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 1: more legal news at Bloomberg Law dot com and Bloomberg 59 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 1: b and A dot com. 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